A Canticle for Leibowitz
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A Canticle for Leibowitz
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#2one of my favorite books since high school. I remember mentioning it to my HS English teacher before class one day (20 years ago) and she amazed and surprised me by replying "oh that's one of my favorites!" It seemed like an esoteric book to me at the time, but her generation also knew of it. maybe the OP can share what they find interesting about it...
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#3Read last year, loved it yet still can't decide if the ending is brilliant or bonkers.
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#4The sequel, Saint_Leibowitz_and_the_Wild_Horse_Woman (434 pp. slightly unfinished for 40 years .. interesting, somewhat tragic story) was as enjoyable as the first to me.
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#5I’ll go against the grain here and say that I was not a huge fan of this book.
I do understand that this is one of the first times the nuclear apocalypse was covered in sci-fi. My main gripe was the writing and how poorly strung together the story was.
Overall the book touched on a lot of great ideas, but the writing felt like it was the first time the author had written a book. A lot of a storylines were touched upon but never completed.
The thread that is drawn throughout the story just isn’t rewarding enough in my opinion. And don’t get me started on the terrible foray into the ethics of suicide that came out of nowhere.
I’m all for reading books that are challenging and fall outside of your traditional tastes but I struggled to make it all the way through this book. I celebrated when I was able to finally put it down.
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#6I tried to read this several times, but found it better as an audio drama. This free recording from NPR is really good quality:
https://archive.org/details/NPRPresentsACANTICLEFORLIEBOWITZ...
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#7Read last year, loved it yet still can't decide if the ending is brilliant or bonkers.
IMO the book is bonkers (and fairly) and the ending is brilliant and clever.
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#9I’ll go against the grain here and say that I was not a huge fan of this book. I do understand that this is one of the first times the nuclear apocalypse was covered in sci-fi. My main gripe was the writing and how poorly strung together the story was. Overall the book touched on a lot of great ideas, but the writing felt like it was the first time the author had written a book. A lot of a storylines were touched upo…
I believe it was a "fix-up", i.e. a book length novel strung together from multiple short stories.
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#10A classic. I read it again every couple of years or so.
The idea of trying to piece things back together after the apocalypse always resonated with me